Farmland Atlas · county record

Red River Parish, Louisiana

Red River Parish, LA: non-irrigated cash rent $78 an acre (2026); land and buildings $2,663 an acre in the 2022 census; median corn yield 137.9 bu/ac. County averages from public records, not an appraisal of any farm. FIPS 22081. Figures as of 2026-09-20.

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Cash rent, non-irrigated
$78/ac
2026 county average
LA median $56 · 17th highest of 46
Cash rent, irrigated
$125/ac
2025 county average
too few 2025 county surveys in the state to compare
Land and buildings
$2,663/ac
2022: what operators guessed land and buildings were worth
LA median $3,628 · 5th lowest of 63
Corn yield, 2017–2025 median
137.9 bu/ac
recent level 2021–2025: 134.2 · irrigated and dryland combined
Claims paid per $100 of coverage
$13.66
2016–2025, closed crop years
LA median $8.82 · 12th highest of 43
Farmland rented
40%
2022 census, rented from others
LA median 51% · 24th lowest of 63

Cash rent

$0$20$40$60$802010201520202025$52$78 dry

Dollars per acre, USDA NASS county survey. A break in a line is a year with no published survey; nothing is drawn across it.

Non-irrigated, 2026$78/ac
Change 2016 to 2026−1.3%nominal, $79 to $78
Irrigated, 2025$125/ac
Pasture, 2026$39/ac

Land value

Land and buildings, 2022$2,663/acoperators' own estimate, not a sale price
Census 2012$1,954/ac
Census 2017$2,238/ac
Change 2017 to 2022+19.0%+3.5% a year, nominal
Dry rent ÷ census value— about 21% of cropland is irrigated (2022 census), so dry rent over the all-land census value is not a yield on anything

Corn yield

201720182019202020212022202320242025178.6147.0145.6136.3134.9129.1129.8137.9153.2median 137.9

Bushels per acre, USDA NASS county yields, all practices. The dashed line is the median of the published years.

Median, 2017–2025137.9 bu/ac9 published years, irrigated and dryland combined
Recent level, 2021–2025134.2 bu/ac5 published years, high and low dropped
Lowest published year2022: 129.1 bu/ac94% of median

Crop insurance record

Claims paid divided by total premium (the farmer share plus the federal subsidy), each closed crop year since 1989. Above the dashed line, the county's insurance book paid out more than it took in. 2026, still open, is left out.

Claims paid per $100 of coverage, 2016–2025$13.66
Loss ratio, 2016–20251.46claims ÷ total premium
Loss ratio, 1989–20251.31$16.6 million paid
Largest causes of loss, 1989–2025excess moisture 53% · heat and drought 34% · other 8%share of dollars paid

Drought and weather

20002005201020152020202517520

Weeks per year, U.S. Drought Monitor, with half the county or more in D2 (severe) drought or worse.

D2 or worse for half the county, 2000–2025176 of 1,357 weeks13% of weeks
Year with the most D2+ weeks201152 weeks
Last five years, 2021–202533 weeks
July average of daily lows, 2017–202673.7 °F1991–2020 normal 72.1 °F
Trend in July lows since 1976+0.70 °F a decadewarming
Rain, April to September25.8 in1991–2020 normal; last ten years 116% of it
Days with hail 1 inch or larger0.8 a yearreports, 2010–2025; a zero is no report, not proof of no hail

Land, water and programs

Harvested cropland irrigated, 202221%
Drained by tile, 2022none reported
Farmed no-till, 202216% of cropland4,904 ac
Cover crops, 202211% of cropland3,564 ac
19861991199620012006201120162021014,2163,567

Acres enrolled in the Conservation Reserve Program, USDA FSA, by fiscal year.

CRP enrolled, 20253,567 ac12.2% of harvested cropland + CRP
CRP expiring FY2026–20281,949 ac55% of enrolled acres
CRP average rental payment, FY2025$73/acall contracts in force, old ones included; not today's offer
Cattle and calves, 202222,920
Farmland rented from others, 202240%census tenure, owned plus rented acres in farms

Next door

CountyDry rentIrr. rentLand valueClaims per $100
Red River Parish$78$125 2025$2,663$13.66
Bienville Parish——$3,628—
Bossier Parish$38—$3,746$35.95
Caddo Parish$71$130$4,525$14.24
De Soto Parish$30—$3,577—
Natchitoches Parish$58$134$3,223$19.41
Median next door$48$132 2 co.$3,628$19.41

Counties that share a stretch of boundary. An older rent carries its year and stays out of the median.

Cite this page

AGSIST Farmland Atlas. Red River Parish, Louisiana. Figures as of 2026-09-20, from USDA NASS, USDA RMA, USDA FSA, the U.S. Drought Monitor and NOAA. https://agsist.com/farmland-atlas/louisiana/red-river-parish
Every figure is a county average from the sources named below. Ranks count counties with 10,000 acres or more in farms, in the same survey year for rent, within the state. Methods: how each figure is built. Downloads: all counties, CSV.
Sources, dates and arithmetic

"Figures as of" is the date this page's numbers last changed; it moves only when a figure on the page does. Source files and their retrieval dates are listed on the data page.

Rent: USDA NASS Cash Rents Survey, county. Land value: Census of Agriculture, operators' estimate of land and buildings. Yield: NASS county corn yields, trend fitted here over every published year since 2008. Loss ratio: claims (indemnity) divided by total premium, USDA RMA Summary of Business, 1989 on, open crop year left out. Drought: U.S. Drought Monitor, weeks with half the county or more in D2 or worse. July lows: NOAA nClimDiv county monthly minimum temperature. A dash means the record does not carry the figure or the source withheld it; the reason is printed beside it.